The Association for International Research Elémire Zolla (A.I.R.E.Z. ) set up at Montepulciano (SI), Italy, following the impulse of Grazia Marchianò, means to treasure the intellectual legacy of Elémire Zolla (Turin 1926 – Montepulciano 2002), with the various methods available today. In fact, paper is no longer the only vehicle for the circulation of knowledge, and a portal and website can indeed be a precious ally. The website www. elemirezolla. net on line as of June 2009, has already been visited by 6000 users, hardly ever in a hasty manner. Our internet experts have advised us to cut down on erudite references and academic language, unsuitable to this medium. This is even more important when considering that the association’s project and initiatives are aimed at users from many different countries, and hence the English version of this website.

On a formal plane, A.I.R.E.Z. is an apolitical, unaligned and not-for-profit association. Its services are for the benefit of any who are in search of a steadfast intellectual anchor, and of an interior path to follow, especially in a time that is “out of joints”, as Shakespeare would say speaking through Hamlet. Indeed, without putting time out of joints but on the contrary digging deep into its mysteries, Zolla has retraced the way to be followed, exploring Eastern and Western thought at their sources, indigenous traditions and new ways of wisdom for a newborn humanism.

It’s something everyone is in need of: believers and laymen, the old and the young alike, and especially for the latter it is paramount to bring it back to life. A post-twentieth century humanism free of any dogma whatosever, built in the footsteps of Zolla’s thought and of minds akin, to be a guide for the perplexed, focusing attention on the goodness and beauty that does exist in today’s society but that is systematically ignored, as if the ostentation of evil and corruption were the only ones worth of breaking news. Such is the task that A. I. R. E. Z. means to undertake. If it succeeds, then the merit will be of all those who have believed in its goal and helped it achieve it, be it in material or intellectual terms.